Northwestern State falls to 'big, physical' UAB

8:40 AM,
Sep. 22, 2013

Northwestern State's De'Mard Llorens rushes against the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday. UAB won, 52-28.

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Nothing special Saturday would have been just fine with Northwestern State football coach Jay Thomas, who watched two early breakdowns in the kicking game put the Demons in a two-touchdown hole that defined a 52-28 loss at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

A rain-slicked football sailed past leaping NSU punter Chase Tassin and squirted back to the 8 on the game's seventh play, and the Blazers converted a fourth-and-goal 1-yard TD pass. After an ensuing Demons' three-and-out, UAB's dynamic returner Jemarcus Russell, third nationally in all-purpose yards, twisted and darted ...